bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Yes, getting the timer to work, canceling it when needed, etc...  It's
> fiddly.  Especially when compared to the simplicity of
> progress-reporter-update/progress-reporter-done.

If it's possible to get the timer to work, then I think the rest is just
a small matter of programming.

While the process-reporter interface is very clean and nice, it does
require that you pass around the reporter object, which can be fiddly,
too -- but it's a fiddliness that all the users of the code have to
relate to.  Whereas a hysteresis-safe `message' would just work without
anybody thinking about it.

I mean, if we could get it to work.

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